From the time when flexographic printing was developed, printers have had to deal with the drawbacks of mechanical drive components especially the gears. The idea of gearless flexo press has been around for decades, but the availability of drive systems has not been up to the task. The application of gearless printing press has been possible only when drive systems such as A/C servo and flux vector have been available.
The introduction of gearless printing press as print medium offers great advantage for flexographic printing press. Flexographic printing presses are able to produce with high numbers and spate accuracy and print quality in their printing production. This is because of servo and flux drives presence in gearless printing press that offers fixed position, ratio, and velocity control in order to attain reliability and printing precision.
One of the important parts of the drive train in flexographic presses is eliminating the mechanical components. With gearless printing press, the errors accumulates, registers accuracy slips even further and speed up the publishing processes.
Aside from that, with gearless printing press, flexo presses are no longer attached into standard repeat lengths prescribed by gear pitch to their presswork. In this case, the overall horsepower and energy utilization in publishing house are reduced with in turn lessen the maintenance cost.
As a result, setup times are reduced for higher speed printing and also solidify profitability for short runs. For printing providers that employ gearless printing press are able to provide affordable printing service without taking the quality output in stake.
